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*One day after Nick Cannon revealed to his morning radio show listeners that he was hospitalized for a second time last week, Mariah Carey’s husband announced that he is stepping down from his daily hosting duties on doctor’s orders. His resignation is effective immediately, and today marks his final day on air at 92.3 NOW [...]
*A pair of talk radio hosts in Los Angeles have been yanked off the air temporarily for making insensitive and inappropriate comments about the late Whitney Houston. Effective immediately, KFI AM 640 hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou have been suspended after calling the late singer a “crack ho” and saying she was “cracked out [...]
*Now that Whitney is gone, all that’s left is the messy process of dealing with the finances. And since her death, her music sales of shot through the roof, but who will inherit the money? “Whitney: The Greatest Hits” album sold over 64,000 copies in just 24 hours after the news of her death hit [...]
*Nick Cannon was hospitalized for the fourth time in three months last week after suffering pain in his chest and right arm, he told listeners of his New York radio show today. The entertainer was recently diagnosed with acute kidney failure after falling ill during a vacation with his wife Mariah Carey and twin children [...]
*On Twitter, Will Packer of Rainforest Films posted that Steve Harvey’s “Think Like a Man” is sure to have a sequel. And the president of Sony’s Screen Gems was on the Steve Harvey radio show and made the official announcement. But the thing is, the first film hasn’t even been released yet. It’ll debut at [...]
*Khloe Kardashian has found a regular gig in Dallas while her husband Lamar Odom is busy with the Mavericks. The reality show star will host her own daily radio show on Dallas station MIX 102.9, which is part of Clear Channel Media. “The Mix Up with Khloe Kardashian Odom,” beginning on Jan. 30, will be [...]
*Nick Cannon and Howard Stern spoke to each other this morning in a simulcast on their respective radio shows, during which Cannon explained exactly what happened during his recent health scare, reports USA Today.” FYI: Stern and Cannon used to be enemies. Cannon was mad at Stern after he felt the shock jock had insulted [...]
*The words of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963, infused hope and inspiration to the mixed masses in a most profound way. Now almost 50 years later the profundity of that speech remains a brilliant evergreen benchmark as we look around and still see the “flames of [...]
*LaLa Vazquez Anthony is putting her entrepreneur hat on and expanding her career horizon with a line of makeup for all skin tones. She’s done just about everything from VJing on MTV, being a reality show star to acting on Broadway, and more. Now it’s time for her to introduce the world to a new [...]
*Al Sharpton is taking a unique political stand and has become a vegetarian. After appearing in a PETA production, the MSNBC news/radio talk show host and activist refused to pick up another chicken wing or leg from KFC. His experience opened his eyes to the abusive animal treatment slaughterhouses commit toward the animals supplied to [...]
*Last month, we reported that Cathy Hughes’ cable channel TV One was suing the BET Network, MTV and Music World Music for violating its exclusive rights to the Essence Music Festival. Mathew Knowles’ Music World Music is listed in the lawsuit because his company brokered the deal for the Essence Music Festival broadcast with TV [...]
*If fame and fortune is all it’s cracked up to be, why are there so many shipwrecked, unhappy, disillusioned, rich and famous people? Why are so many people who seemingly have everything either going to jail; to rehab; victimizing others; being victimized themselves; self-destructing; and doing things that just don’t make any sense whatsoever? Think [...]
Note: This is a revised excerpt from the book “Things Are Gettin’ Outta Hand” by Larry Buford If driving a car is a privilege, sex a preference, parenthood a choice, and immigration conditional – to name just a few issues – why in the world are so many people defending and/or clamoring for rights these days? Rights in [...]
*In his defense of GOP presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann being introduced on Jimmy Fallon’s Monday broadcast to the song “Lyin’ Ass Bitch,” conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on his Wednesday show said that if Michelle Obama were to appear on his radio show, he would introduce the first lady with Sir-Mix-A-Lot’s 1992 hit “Baby [...]
*Video of America’s first African-American First Lady being booed by a predominantly-white crowd of NASCAR fans this weekend in Homestead was of course noted by Rush Limbaugh. He went on his radio show Monday to defend the folks in the stands, saying the boos rang out because Michelle Obama has a bit of “uppity-ism.” The [...]
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